Hong Kong confirmed three more cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant on Saturday, bringing the local tally to 14. One of them is a cargo flight crew member who was exempted from quarantine. The man, 36, arrived from the United States on Monday a...

The ICAC said on Saturday that magistrates had issued arrest warrants for former lawmaker Nathan Law, former student leader Sunny Cheung and former district councillors Nigel Lee, Timothy Lee and Carmen Lau. The anti-graft commission said the five ...

The chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission, Barnabas Fung, says officials will strive to speed up the vote counting after the Legislative Council poll on Sunday and are hopeful that the results of all 90 seats up for grabs could be announced by...

Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang says the government has not set a target for turnout in Sunday's Legislative Council election, as he accused anti-China forces of trying to undermine the poll by calling for a boycott. S...

Hong Kong has confirmed two more cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant, bringing the local tally to 11 so far. One of them is among seven imported cases confirmed on Friday. The patient, 41, is a cargo flight crew member who arrived on Wednesda...

Police on Friday said they had arrested two men on suspicion of inciting others to commit arson and attack or kill police officers and government officials. Officers said the pair, aged 22 and 34, are also accused of urging people to join unauthoris...

Sports Commissioner Yeung Tak-keung on Friday said the "remarkable" achievement of Siobhan Haughey at the Fina World Swimming Championships is an inspiration to local athletes. Haughey took gold and broke the world record in the 200 metres freestyle...

Chief Secretary John Lee says this weekend's Legco polls will be the largest Hong Kong has ever seen, with a record amount of election staff on hand to help voters return an unprecedented number of lawmakers. Lee urged people to take part in the pol...

Labour Party chairman Steven Kwok has been given a two-week prison term over the interruption he caused to a Legco meeting in May last year. Kwok, who was then a lawmaker assistant, earlier pleaded guilty to contempt and resisting or obstructing a L...

A student was on Friday sent to a detention centre after he admitted to throwing a petrol bomb at a roadblock and possessing materials to make more. Lau Chi-hei, who was 16 years old at the time, had pleaded guilty to arson and possessing items wit...

The Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) has called on the government to reserve half of the future quarantine-free mainland travel quota for those who want to cross the border on compassionate grounds. The FTU said during a press conference on Friday t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday appointed barrister Priscilla Wong as the new chairwoman of the Council of the University of Hong Kong. Wong, who chairs the Independent Police Complaints Council and the Minimum Wage Commission, will begin her ...

RTHK concludes its video series introducing the candidates running for geographical constituency seats in Sunday’s Legislative Council elections with a look at the hopefuls contesting the two spots in New Territories North East. Watch as the candi...

Representatives of frontline doctors and nurses say a new home loan scheme rolled out by the Hospital Authority will probably not help much in retaining staff. The authority announced on Thursday that it is to offer staff a downpayment loan for a p...

Health authorities on Friday said that about 160 people had been tested for Covid during a lockdown at a Yau Ma Tei residential building overnight and that no confirmed cases had been found. The lockdown, at the Cheung Hing Building on Pitt Street,...

The Hospital Authority (HA) on Thursday introduced a series of measures in an effort to encourage staff to stay in the public medical sector, including a low interest loan scheme to help them buy a flat. Officials said the turnover rates of doctors ...

Health authorities on Thursday evening ordered a lockdown for a building in Yau Ma Tei after a Cathay Pacific cargo crew tested preliminary positive for Covid-19, which officials suspect could involve the Omicron variant. The case prompted calls for...

Hong Kong authorities on Thursday said they had arrested nine people, including senior executives of three listed companies, on suspicion of money laundering in connection with alleged stock manipulation. Officers from the Securities and Futures Com...

The ICAC on Thursday charged two people with inciting others to cast blank ballots in Sunday's Legco polls by re-posting a social media post in which former lawmaker Ted Hui allegedly made such an appeal. These are the first prosecutions under a new...

Health authorities have banned Nepal Airlines from flying passenger flights from Kathmandu to Hong Kong for two weeks, after four passengers on a December 14 flight were confirmed to be infected with Covid-19. Officials said the four were found to ...